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by hesk 9y ago
> If felons were truly forgiven, they would have their right to vote restored. This is a very US-centric attitude and very undemocratic in my view. In Germany, for example, people in jail are generally allowed to vote. They could even se
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by hesk 9y ago
Since Apple sits on 285 billion dollars cash, it can't be that big of a problem.
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by hesk 9y ago
Well, PGP is an email encryption layer that's 20 years old and was very enthusiastically adopted by the privacy community. It actually has some uses, e.g., Edward Snowden used it to communicate with Laura Poitras. But it's too com
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by hesk 9y ago
She did explain. "Internet money with the usability of PGP and the stability of BART service." https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/953461510000398338
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by hesk 9y ago
The new major version offers a lot more functionality. I looked into it and decided I wanted it, so I upgraded. I assume that I could have stayed with the old major version but I'm not sure.
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by hesk 9y ago
To clarify, the constitutional court has ruled that people who serve a life-long sentence must have the legal means to be regain their freedom at some point.
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by hesk 9y ago
Because the speed and the weight of the vehicles driven by motorists are generally so large that they tend to kill people in a collision. The same is not true for cyclists.
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by hesk 9y ago
Only fixes Meltdown but not Spectre.
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by hesk 9y ago
Can't wait to read the same post 10 years from now.
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by hesk 9y ago
Hiding the complexity is exactly the wrong approach. You want to reduce the complexity so that the average person can understand it just fine.
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by hesk 9y ago
> There are many voting schemes that offer all the benefits of paper voting A major benefit of paper voting is that you don't need a math PhD to verify for yourself the integrity of the vote process.